athletes, one from Britain and the other from Mexico, died on Thursday on the first day of the Torremolinos-Andalucia Triathlon Championship Finals, World Triathlon said.
British Triathlon confirmed the death of one of its age-group team members, without revealing his identity or cause of death.
The Mexican Triathlon Federation reported the death of Roger Mas Colomber, aged 75. “It is with deep sadness that we inform you that two competitors (one from Mexico, one from Britain) have died at the World Triathlon Torremolinos-Andalucia AG Sprint Distance World Championships,” World Triathlon said in a statement.
Torremolinos is hosting the event from Oct. 17-20, with more than 5,500 triathletes from over 80 countries competing.
Payton Washington earns national title, a year after surviving a shooting
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Payton Washington earns national title, a year after surviving shooting (11:28).
LIFE HAD NOT been easy for Payton Washington. But on Monday, April 17, 2023, everything seemed possible.
That weekend, her all-star cheerleading team was going to compete at The Cheerleading Worlds, and, as perennial contenders, they were likely to win. A few weeks later, she would graduate high school, and then officially join Baylor University’s acrobatics and tumbling team, a program with seven national titles.
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All she’d been working toward the past 14 years would finally be realized. She just had to get through one last week of practice.
For nearly a decade, Payton regularly made the 300-mile round trip from her home, outside of Austin, Texas, to her cheerleading gym, near Houston. She carpooled with a few of her teammates to share the burden of the drive, using a local HEB supermarket parking lot to meet and change cars, arriving back from practice late at night.
“HEB was well lit on the sides, almost like a football field, so that’s why we went there,” she said. “Because who would do anything bad to you at HEB?”
Monday had just turned into Tuesday when the carpool pulled into the parking lot after practice. One of Payton’s teammates left to get into her own vehicle, then returned in a panic,
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